ALUMNI

Over the years our graduates have gone on to study theatre, musical theatre, technical theatre, or other arts-related fields at our country’s leading colleges and universities including Cincinnati Conservatory, Christopher Newport University, Dartmouth, Duke University, East Carolina University, Florida State University, Harvard, Howard University, James Madison University, Manhattan Marymount, Mercyhurst College, New York University, North Carolina School of the Arts, Northwestern University, Old Dominion University, Pointe Park, Sarah Lawrence College, Shenandoah College, Southern Methodist University, Syracuse University, University of Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest University, Webster University, West Va. Wesleyan, William and Mary, and Yale.

Many Glass Theatre alumni have gone on to successful careers on Broadway and in regional theatres across the country, as well as in the television and film industry. Our alumni include Faith Prince (Tony award winner for Guys and Dolls and The King and I; Broadway – A Catered Affair; television – Spin City, Grey’s Anatomy; film - Dave ); Connie Britton (television- Spin City, West Wing, and Friday Night Lights); Chuck Carrington (television - JAG, Melrose Place, Beyond Belief, Film – The List); Perry Payne (NYC Cabaret Performer-of-the-Year for many years, star of Sheer Madness and Gypsy in regional theatre, Broadway producer – Best Musical ’08, In the Heights); Allison Daugherty (Broadway – RSC’s Hamlet; Film – I Dreamed of Africa; Television - Third Watch, Law & Order CSI, Sex and the City); Spence White (Broadway – RSC’s Hamlet; former member of the Guthrie Theatre Company, founder and star of the “USA Knuckleheads”); Paul Fitzgerald (Broadway – Noises Off, Debbie Does Dallas; film – writer/director/star – Forgiven, 2006 Sundance Festival, television – Law & Order, L&O:CSI, Will and Grace, West Wing, The Gilmore Girls); Enrique Brown (Broadway - revivals of Oklahoma and Fiddler on the Roof, Principal Dancer - Ballet Oklahoma); Joey Dudding (Broadway – Gypsy, La Cage aux Folles, A Chorus Line [Revival]); Case Dillard (Broadway – Disney’s Mary Poppins); Hope Harris (Broadway – The Civil War; Nashville recording artist); LaTasha Hutcherson-Price (National Black Theatre Festival, film and telelvision); Rider Vierling (Principal Dancer - Charleston Ballet, Augusta Ballet, and Ballet Idaho); Matt McKinney (Principal Dancer - Charleston Ballet, Eugene Ballet); Allan Kerr (Production Stage Manger, Martha Graham Dance Company); John Ferry (Stage Manager, The Williamstown Playhouse; Production Team, The Public Theatre of New York City); Karen Currie (founding member of “Spellbound Theatreworks” in NYC and Assistant Director of the Kennedy Center); David Lee (playwright – All Fall Down; Producer – ABC Television’s Extreme Makeover); Rob Bradford (regional theatre – Footloose, Guys and Dolls, Best Little Whorehouse, Damn Yankees; Shakespeare in the Valley - The Taming of the Shrew; Off-Broadway – All the World’s A Grave; Nickelodeon Productions – Host, Slime Time Live!; Film – The Graduates); Brandon Ruckdashel (Off-Broadway - Ascension and Surf’s Up!, film – Boy in a Bathtub, The Landscapers Daughter), Abby Baum (Cortland Repertory Theatre, Town Hall’s Broadway’s Rising Stars, New York Fringe Festival; Broadway Asia Tour – Disney’s Cinderella; 2008 IT Award Nominee, Milan Connor (Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences on Tour), Matt Fletcher (Heritage Repertory Theatre, The Lost Colony; Side Show Theatre Company, one-man show, Dante’s Dead), John Hickman (The Williamstown Playhouse, Chicago Shakespeare Company, The Jersey Boys), Justin Bowen (Shenandoah Summer Musical Theatre), Paul Craig (Boston Ballet); Alex Buckner (Richmond Ballet); Derek Lauer (Milwaukee Ballet); Molly Tock (Nashville Ballet); Emily Pozek (Walt Disney World Entertainment), Maizyalet Velazquez (Cincinnati Ballet), Sarah Austin (Richmond Ballet), Jason Carden (Regional Theatre - Horn in the West; Film - Demon Trap, My Life is a Movie; Television - 8 Simple Rules; Web Series - Three Percent Enemies)

Several alumni have returned to direct shows for our program and each year alumni return to Lynchburg to meet with our students, answer questions, and conduct workshops. Graduates of the EC Glass Drama Program find an enthusiastic network of arts professionals waiting to assist them as they take their first steps toward their careers in every arts-related field.